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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law this week allowing Russian reservists to be sent for “special training” to protect critical infrastructure, reports The Moscow Times. Some fear that this could increase the human reserves of the Russian army and help the Kremlin send more people to the war in Ukraine. Others argue that the law will not have a significant impact on the army. Who are the reservists The Kremlin leader established a mobilization reserve — the Special Combat Reserve of the Army, or BARS — in 2015. The reserve is intended for people who have previously served in…

The Government of the Russian Federation has granted Roskomnadzor (RKN) the right to disconnect Runet (the Russian segment of the internet) from the global network and to block any website. The new “Centralized Network Management Rules” will come into effect on March 1, 2026. According to the new rules, Roskomnadzor can activate these powers in case of the emergence of “threats to the stability, security, and integrity” of the internet operation in Russia. The list of situations considered risky and that can justify intervention includes: network node failures or overloads; malfunctions of critical infrastructure; cyber attacks; dissemination of prohibited content;…

An administrative deadlock in Washington has led to the temporary halt of American arms exports worth over 5 billion dollars, destined for NATO allies and Ukraine, reports Axios, citing sources from the U.S. State Department. According to the publication, the direct cause of the delays is bureaucratic paralysis caused by the government shutdown that began on October 1, following the failure of negotiations regarding the federal budget. As a result, thousands of public officials have either been sent on unpaid leave or continue to work without receiving salaries, and a number of essential administrative services have been suspended. A high-ranking…

The European Union authorities intend to create a Centre for Democratic Resilience, designed to combat disinformation coming from Russia and other authoritarian regimes. The information is published by The Guardian, which cites an internal document of the European Commission. The new centre will be part of the “Democracy Shield” initiative, proposed by the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. It will coordinate the exchange of informational data and will contribute to raising public awareness about the attempts of foreign governments to manipulate information. The project mentions that Russia, in addition to its military aggression against Ukraine, also carries…

“History teaches us that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is low,” said former American President Ronald Reagan a few years before the collapse of the “evil empire,” the Soviet Union. Today, Europe faces a similar external threat from Russia, according to an analysis by The Economist, which calculated the cost that European countries will have to pay to prevent Moscow from destroying Ukraine and the unity of the NATO alliance. The Economist estimated that Ukraine will need about 389 billion dollars in financial and military aid over the next four years in order to defend itself,…

Journalists from several European publications have discovered how easily high-ranking EU officials can be spied on using location history obtained commercially and sold by data brokers, despite the fact that European countries have some of the strictest data protection laws in the world. A coalition of reporters from L’Echo, Le Monde, Netzpolitik.org, and BNR nieuwsradio obtained a data set, offered as a free sample from a data broker, which contains 278 million location data points from the phones of millions of people in Belgium. A large portion of the location data is uploaded by regular apps installed on a person’s…

Germany and the United Kingdom have sounded an alarm regarding the increasing threat posed by Russia and China’s satellites, which have been repeatedly observed spying on satellites used by Western powers. In recent weeks, the two countries have reported numerous instances of tracking, jamming, and interference from Russia on their space satellites, writes CNN. “Russia’s actions, especially in space, represent a fundamental threat to us all, a threat we can no longer ignore,” stated the German Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius, in September, at a conference in Berlin dedicated to the space industry. Targeting communication satellites can affect telecommunications and…

The former NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, spoke about a complicated moment at the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, when NATO refused to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, despite the requests of President Zelenski. Stoltenberg says, in a statement from his memoirs, quoted by The Sunday Times, that Zelenski called him from a bunker in Kiev to ask for this. In his memoirs, the former NATO chief remembers the “painful moment” in February 2022 when he rejected the desperate request of Volodimir Zelenski to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine. Stoltenberg also said that he feared that…

Several major cities in Ukraine have been left without electricity following a massive combined attack launched by the Russian army on the energy infrastructure on the night of November 8. The strikes destroyed the thermal power plants in Tripilia and Zmiev, located in the Kiev and Kharkov regions. These units belong to the state-owned company Centrenergo, which provides 14% of the country’s electricity production. Another power plant operated by the private company DTEK was also damaged. In Kiev, the majority of consumers were left without light. The local press has published images of the capital plunged into darkness. Shops, pharmacies,…

The Ukrainian army conveyed on Sunday details about a success recorded on the Crimean front. They destroyed a Russian mobile missile launch system “Triumph”, designed to detect and destroy aerial targets at long distances. The Kremlin had invested a billion dollars in this weapon. The Ukrainian army claims that the Russians used the “Triumph” S-400 system to attack Ukrainian territory. The launcher, worth 1 billion dollars, was located near Yevpatoria. During the operation, an ammunition depot in Crimea was also destroyed. The operation took place on October 6 and was coordinated by the Special Operations Forces of the Ukrainian army.…